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mightydin's "Dystopia Novels: A Reading List"

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These are societies that, like "Brave New World," were intended to be Utopias, at least for some.

Note: With some exceptions, short story collections, young adult fiction and series have been eliminated if so identified. Also, I have striven to include high-quality books only.

  1. 1.
    2001: A Space Odyssey
    by Arthur C. Clarke

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    After
    by Francine Prose

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    All Tomorrow's Parties
    by William Gibson

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    Altered Carbon: A Takeshi Kovacs Novel (Takeshi Kovacs Novels)
    by Richard K. Morgan

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    Always Coming Home (California Fiction)
    by Ursula K. Le Guin

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    Ambient
    by Jack Womack

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    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell

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    Ape and Essence
    by Aldous Huxley

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    Atomised
    by Michel Houellebecq

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  10. 10.
    Bar Code Rebellion
    by Suzanne Weyn

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  11. 11.
    The Bar Code Tattoo (Point Thriller)
    by Suzanne Weyn

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  12. 12.
    Bear v. Shark: The Novel
    by Chris Bachelder

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  13. 13.
    Bend Sinister
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  14. 14.
    Book of Dave, The
    by Will Self

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  15. 15.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

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  16. 16.
    Brave New World Revisited (P.S.)
    by Aldous Huxley

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  17. 17.
    A Canticle for Leibowitz
    by Walter M. Miller Jr.

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  18. 18.
    Caesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century
    by Ignatius Donnelly

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  19. 19.
    The Children of Men
    by P.D. James

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  20. 20.
    The Chrysalids
    by John Wyndham

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  21. 21.
    Chung Kuo: The Middle Kingdom
    by David Wingrove

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  22. 22.
    CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
    by George Saunders

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  23. 23.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess

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  24. 24.
    Cloud Atlas: A Novel
    by David Mitchell

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  25. 25.
    Count Zero
    by William Gibson

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  26. 26.
    Darkness at Noon: A Novel
    by Arthur Koestler

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  27. 27.
    Dhalgren
    by Samuel R. Delany

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  28. 29.
    The Dispossessed
    by Ursula K. Le Guin

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  29. 30.
    Divided Kingdom
    by Rupert Thomson

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  30. 31.
    Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
    by Philip K. Dick

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    The Domination
    by S.M. Stirling

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  33. 34.
    Drowning Towers
    by George Turner

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  34. 35.
    Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1)
    by Orson Scott Card

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  35. 36.
    The Ethos Effect
    by L. E. Modesitt Jr.

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  36. 37.
    Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
    by Ray Bradbury

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  37. 38.
    Fatherland: A Novel (Mortalis)
    by Robert Harris

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  38. 39.
    Feed
    by M.T. Anderson

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  39. 40.
    The Fifth Sacred Thing
    by Starhawk

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  40. 41.
    The First Men in the Moon (Penguin Classics)
    by H.G. Wells

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  41. 42.
    Flashforward
    by Robert J. Sawyer

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  42. 43.
    Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
    by Philip K. Dick

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  43. 44.
    Foundation and Earth
    by Isaac Asimov

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  44. 45.
    Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

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  45. 46.
    The Giver
    by Lois Lowry

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  46. 47.
    The Glass Bees (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Ernst Junger

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  47. 48.
    Gun, with Occasional Music (Harvest Book)
    by Jonathan Lethem

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  48. 49.
    The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel
    by Margaret Atwood

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  49. 50.
    Heathern
    by Jack Womack

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  50. 51.
    Hex
    by Rhiannon Lassiter

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  51. 52.
    I Am Legend (ties into movie)
    by Richard Matheson

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  52. 53.
    Idoru
    by William Gibson

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  53. 54.
    The Immortals
    by Tracy Hickman

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  54. 55.
    Infinite Jest
    by David Foster Wallace

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  55. 56.
    In the Country of Last Things
    by Paul Auster

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  56. 57.
    Invitation to the Game
    by Monica Hughes

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  57. 58.
    Iron Heel
    by Jack London

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  58. 59.
    It Can't Happen Here (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by Sinclair Lewis

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  59. 60.
    The Jagged Orbit
    by John Brunner

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  60. 61.
    Jennifer Government
    by Max Barry

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  61. 62.
    Kallocain
    by Karin Boye

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  62. 63.
    Lanark: A Life in 4 Books (Harvest Book)
    by Alasdair Gray

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  63. 64.
    The Last Book In The Universe
    by Rodman Philbrick

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  64. 65.
    The Lathe of Heaven: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Ursula K. Le Guin

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  65. 66.
    Level 7 (Library of American Fiction)
    by Mordecai Roshwald

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  66. 68.
    Logan's Run (Logan)
    by William F. Nolan

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  67. 69.
    The Long Walk
    by Stephen King

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  68. 70.
    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding

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  69. 71.
    Lost Souls
    by Poppy Z. Brite

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  70. 72.
    The Machine Stops
    by E. M. Forster

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  71. 73.
    Make Room! Make Room!
    by Harry Harrison

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  72. 74.
    The Man in the High Castle
    by Philip K. Dick

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  73. 75.
    Market Forces
    by Richard K. Morgan

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  74. 76.
    Memoirs Found in a Bathtub
    by Stanislaw Lem

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  75. 77.
    The Memoirs of a Survivor
    by Doris Lessing

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  76. 78.
    Metropole
    by Ferenc Karinthy

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  77. 79.
    Mockingbird (Del Rey Impact)
    by Walter Tevis

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  78. 80.
    Mona Lisa Overdrive (Bantam Spectra Book)
    by William Gibson

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  79. 81.
    Moscow - 2042
    by Vladimir Voinovich

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  80. 82.
    Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
    by William S. Burroughs

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  81. 83.
    Neuromancer
    by William Gibson

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  82. 84.
    Never Let Me Go
    by Kazuo Ishiguro

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  83. 85.
    News From Nowhere (Oxford World's Classics)
    by William Morris

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  84. 86.
    Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by George Orwell

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  85. 87.
    Nova Express
    by William S. Burroughs

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  86. 88.
    Oryx and Crake
    by Margaret Atwood

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  87. 89.
    Parable of the Sower
    by Octavia E. Butler

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  88. 90.
    Parable of the Talents
    by Octavia E. Butler

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  90. 92.
    Player Piano
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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  91. 93.
    The Postman (Bantam Classics)
    by David Brin

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  92. 94.
    Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
    by Chuck Palahniuk

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  93. 96.
    Return to Isis
    by Jean Stewart

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  94. 97.
    Riddley Walker
    by Russell Hoban

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  95. 98.
    The Road (rough cut)
    by Cormac Mccarthy

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  96. 99.
    The Running Man
    by Stephen King

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  97. 100.
    R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) (Penguin Classics)
    by Karel Capek

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  98. 101.
    A Scanner Darkly (Gollancz SF)
    by Philip K. Dick

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  99. 102.
    Seed to Harvest
    by Octavia E. Butler

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  100. 103.
    Shade's Children
    by Garth Nix

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  101. 104.
    The Sheep Look Up
    by John Brunner

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  102. 105.
    The Shockwave Rider
    by John Brunner

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  103. 106.
    The Shore of Women
    by Pamela Sargent

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  104. 107.
    The Sleeper Awakes (Penguin Classics)
    by H.G. Wells

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  105. 108.
    Sleepwalking
    by Nicola Morgan

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  106. 109.
    Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book)
    by Neal Stephenson

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  107. 110.
    The Space Merchants
    by Frederik Pohl

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  108. 111.
    Specimen Days: A Novel
    by Michael Cunningham

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  109. 112.
    The Stepford Wives
    by Ira Levin

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  110. 113.
    The Supernaturalist.
    by Eoin Colfer

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  111. 114.
    Swan Song
    by Robert McCammon

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  112. 115.
    Swastika Night
    by Katharine Burdekin

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  113. 116.
    This Other Eden
    by Ben Elton

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  114. 117.
    The Time Machine
    by H.G. Wells

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  115. 118.
    Time Out of Joint (Vintage)
    by Philip K. Dick

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  116. 119.
    The Trial
    by Franz Kafka

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  117. 120.
    Utopia X
    by Scott Wilson

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  118. 121.
    V for Vendetta
    by Alan Moore

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  119. 122.
    Veracity
    by Mark Lavorato

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  120. 123.
    Virtual Light
    by William Gibson

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  121. 124.
    The Wanting Seed (Norton Paperback Fiction)
    by Anthony Burgess

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  122. 125.
    War with the Newts (European Classics)
    by Karel Capek

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  123. 126.
    We (Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin

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  124. 127.
    Welcome to the Monkey House
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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  125. 128.
    When Gravity Fails
    by George Alec Effinger

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  126. 129.
    When the Sleeper Awakes
    by H. G, Wells

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  127. 130.
    Woman on the Edge of Time
    by Marge Piercy

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  128. 131.
    The World Inside
    by Robert Silverberg

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  129. 132.
    A World Out of Time
    by Larry Niven

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  130. 133.
    Yawning Heights
    by Aleksandr Zinov'ev

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  131. 134.
    The Year of the Flood: A Novel
    by Margaret Atwood

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  132. 135.
    The Unit
    by Ninni Holmqvist

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